The Top 25 Hottest Mobile Game Developers

Strong partnerships

with Universal

Pictures, ABC, &

Warner Bros

Gangstar: Miami

Vindication

Uno for Iphone

James Cameron's Avatar

Assasin's Creed @gameloft

Michel Guillemot

Paris, France

One of the top

mobile game developers (own

Chillingo)

Battlefield Bad

Company

Rock Band

Reloaded Need for Speed

Cut the Rope

Scrabble

@eamobile

John Riccitiello

Montreal,

Canada

2561

Having the best

selling game app Angry Birds

@roviomobile

Mikael Hed

Finland

Acquired by

DeNA. The

company is most

well-known for

their publishing of

the Rolando game

series and Eliminate.

GodFinger

Touch Pets

We Rule

@ngmoco

Neil Young

San Francisco,

CA

led all developers

in App Store

downloads in 2009

Millionaire City

@dchocgames

Trip Hawkins

San Mateo, Ca

Games

Bejeweled”, which

has sold more than

50 million copies

since it launched in

2001, generating at

least $300 million in

sales

Bejeweled

Plants Vs.

Zombies @popcap_games

Dave Roberts

Seattle, WA

1842

Fast paced aerial

and racing games

Flight Control

Real Racing 2

@firemint

Robert Murray

Melbourne,

Australia

1776

focused on bringing

the best in social,

freemium, cross-

platform mobile

gaming experiences

to the mass market

Super KO Boxing

Paperboy

Delivery

Lord of the Rings

Age of Empires @glumobile

Niccolo de Masi

San Francisco,

CA

1671

successful Guitar Hero Mobile

franchise

WPT Texas Hold

em 2 Guitar Hero

Mobile

House MD Judy Wade

San Francisco,

CA

1313

The world leader in

downloadable

games. A New

Game Every Day!

Nick Chase

Amazon Hidden

Expedition

Cooking Quest

Jeremy Lewis

Seattle, WA

1234

(RealArcade)

Online, PC & Mac

based games

Twilight New

Moon

The A-Team @gamehouse

Bob Kimball

Seattle, WA

1200

Owned by Oberon

Media, focus on

online & mobile

social games

Deal or no Deal

Fast and Furious

Adrenaline

Women's Murder

club

@iplaygaming

David Lebow

New York, NY

1126

Diverse, award

winning portfolio of

mobile games

Zenonia

Baseball

Superstars

Ilussia

Nom: Billion Year

@gamevil James Song

Seoul, Korea

1124

One of India's

largest mobile game

publishers

Toy Story 3

Brickbreaker

Revolution 2

Vishal Gondal

Mumbai, India

1061

(Epic Games)

Released Infinity

Blade which was the

first game on Apple

mobile devices

powered by Unreal

Engine 3.

Shadow Complex

Empire

Undertow

Infinity Blade

@chairgames

Tim Sweeney

Salt Lake City,

Utah

1048

Disney movie

theme mobile

games

Tron

Toy Story 3:

Operation

Camouflage

@disneymobile John Pleasants

(co-President)

Los Angeles,

CA

1044

Number one mobile

games provider in

Korea

Inotia 3: Children

of Carnia

Queen's Crown

Slice It!

@com2us

Jiyoung Park

Seoul, Korea

1022

Cutting edge mobile

games

Perfect Cell

Edge

Trucker's Delight

@mobigame

David Papazian

Paris, France

Commodore 64 on

the iPhone

Whac-a-mole

JACOB MØLLER

Denmark

912

Producing games for

women over 35

Sally's Spa

Sally's Salon

@sallysgames

Steve Shatford

Calgary

Alberta

880

Mostly a Blackberry

game developer

moving into Apple

iOS

Texas Hold'em

King franchise

Ka-Glom

The New York

Times

Crosswords @MagmicSocial

John Criswick

Ottawa,

Canada

842

Casual and family

friendly games

Cake Mania

Tradewinds

@sandlotgames Daniel Bernstein

Bothell, WA

810

Sports titles

Championship

Manager 2011

Football Tycoon

@dynamogames

Brian McNicoll

Dundee

Scotland

800

Completely free

games subsidized by

advertising

Campus Wars

Gulf Rescue

Mayo

@cellufun Arthur Goikhman

New York, NY

758

Social and Casual

Games

Reign of Swords

2

Ego City @punchgames

Tobin Lent

Palo Alto, Ca

751

2561

2373

1896

2020

1842

1776

1671

1126

1044

880

758

1313

1124

1022

842

751

1234

1061

1018

810

1200

1048

912

800

MOBILE GAME DEVELOPERS

* Number reflects non-mobile related figures

Data & BUZZ sources: Google Trends, SocialMention &

HowSociable

By MARK FIDELMAN t:@markfidelman

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